Tune: ST. JOAN

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ST. JOAN

Composer: Percy E. B. Coller (1941)
Published in 9 hymnals

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Composer: Percy E. B. Coller

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Tune Information

Title:	ST. JOAN
Composer:	Percy E. B. Coller (1941)
Meter:	6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6
Incipit:	13516 56165 32313
Key:	C Major
Copyright:	© 1941, 1969, The Church Pension Fund

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Texts

Christ Is the World's True Light

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Alternative Tunes

More tunes with meter 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 ^ top

Notes

Percy E. B. Coller (b. Liverpool, England, 1895; d. unknown) composed ST. JOAN and submitted it anonymously for publication in The Hymnal 1940, where it was set to Briggs's text. Coller must have enjoyed the companionship of a saintly wife because he named this tune in her honor. As a boy chorister Coller sang in ... Liverpool and Oxford [church] Cathedral choirs, and at the age of fifteen he became sub-organist of [St. Peter's Church in] Liverpool. He was educated at Liverpool University [University of Liverpool] and after World War I served as organist and choirmaster of St. Peter Church, Montreal, Canada.

Marked by ascending "rocket" motives and several sequences, ST. JOAN is intended for part singing. The tune requires confident organ accompaniment and a brisk tempo that thrives on one pulse per bar.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Harmonizations, Introductions, Descants, Intonations

Vocal Descants for 101 Noteworthy Hymns
Composer/Editor Lorna Barker
Published By: Church Publishing (2010) pp. 20
Hymn Intonations Preludes & Free Harmonizations Volume XI: 25 Harmonizations and Descants
Composer/Editor Craig Phillips
Published By: Selah Publishing Company, Inc. (2000) pp. 21
Free Harmonizations of Hymn Tunes: Volume II
Composer/Editor D. DeWitt Wasson
Published By: Hinshaw Music, Inc. (1986) pp. 38

Organ Solo

Hymn Prelude Library Volume Ten Tunes S: Lutheran Service Book
Composer/Editors Kevin J. Hildebrand; Thomas E. Lock
Published By: Concordia Publishing House (2016) pp. 42
Thirty-Five Interludes on Hymn Tunes
Composer/Editor Joseph W. Clokey
Published By: J. Fischer & Brothers (1958) pp. 56